Ticket-holder for car-seats.



No. 665,269. I Patented Jan. I, l9 0l. H. F. RODNEY.

(Application filed Mar. 10, 190

(No Model.)

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NTTE STATES PATENT FFICE.

HENRY F. ROONEY, OF RANDOLPH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JOHN WALLACE, OF SAME PLACE.

TICKET-HOLDER FOR CAR-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,259, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed March 10, 1900. Serial No. 8,101. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, HENRY F. RODNEY, of Randolph, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Holders for Oar-Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clips orholders applied to the backs of railway-car seats for the purpose of holding the ticket of the passenger in the rear of the seat having the holder.

The invention consists in certain improvements in the construction of said clips or holders, which I shall now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents aplan view of a car-seat equipped with my improved ticket holder or clip. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of the holder or clip. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 4 represents a reverse plan view. Fig. 5 represents a section on the line 5 5, Fig. 2. Fig. 6 represents a section on the line 6 6, Fig. 3.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Referring to the drawings, a, designates the car-seat, and a designates the back thereof, the seat being of the usual reversible pattern. On the edge of the seat-back a are located two ticket-holders b b, embodying my improvements, the respective holders serving for the tickets of the two passengers who may occupy the seat in the rear of seat a. It will also be understood that the opposite edge of the seat-back a may be equipped with two ticket-holders similar to the holders 1) b, which will be utilized when the seat-back is reversed.

The clip or holder 1) consists of a body portion or upperjaw b, which is substantially fiat on its under side--the side which lies against the edge of the seat-back-and is provided on its lower edge with two integral laterally-projecting ears 1) b formed with holes 11 b for the reception of the nails or screws by which the clip is attached to the car-seat.

By recessing the under side of the upper jaw b at 19 making said jaw substantially a shell, a space is provided to receive the lower jaw b which is pivoted or hinged to the jaw 19' by means of a pintle b passing through the lower jaw and supported in the vertical side walls 17 b of the main or upper jaw Z).

Between the heels or inner ends of the two jaws b b is interposed a spring 12 whose tension holds the front or outer ends Z9 1) of said jaws yieldingly in contact, each jaw having a short projection 11 to hold the spring in place. The contact of the two jaws is at a point a short distance back of the extreme ends of said jaws, and between that point and the ends the opposing faces of the jaws are flared and rounded, with the object of guiding the ticketc readily into the cleft between the jaws and enabling it to slip between the jaws and separate them.

The ticket 0 is slipped into place in the holder merely by an inward pressure exerted on the ticket and is withdrawn by an opposite pressure without the necessity of handling the holder. The thickness of the ticket separates the jaws a slight distance, and the tension of the spring 8 holds the jaws firmly against the ticket and retains the latter in the holder. It will be noted that the construction of the holder renders the under jaw protected by the upper one, the latter being firmly fixed to the car-seat, so that there is little liability of the holder becoming injured or deranged.

I claim 1. The combination with the back of a carseat, of a ticket-holding clip consisting of two smooth-faced jaws hinged together and constructed to be opened by the insertion of a ticket between them, one of said jaws being attached to the seat and the other supported upon the jaw soattached, and a spring yieldingly holding the operative ends of said jaws together.

2. A ticket-holding clip for car-seats, the same consisting of two smooth-faced jaws hinged together and one of them having one or more perforated ears to receive nails or screws for attaching the clip to the back of a car-seat, the jaws coming together at a point near their outer ends and beyond said point being rounded and flaring to form a recess for the introduction of the ticket, and a spring interposed between the inner ends of said jaws and yieldingly holding their outer ends together.

3. A ticket-holding clip for ear-seats, the same consisting of a jaw having a substantially flat and smooth under side and one or more perforated ears projecting laterally from its lower edge to receive nails or screws for attaching the clip to the back of a car-seat, said jaw being recessed on its under side to receive the other jaw, a jaw mounted within the said recess and hinged to the first said jaw having a smooth face, and a springinterposed between the inner ends of the jaws and yieldingly holding their outer ends together.

4. A ticket-holding clip for car-seats, the same consisting of a jaw formed with integral sides supporting the other jaw and with one or more integral perforated ears projecting laterally from its lower edge to receive nails or screws for attaching the clip to the back of a car-seat, the said sides including a recess between them, a jaw suspended in said recess between the sides ofthe first said jaw, a pintle passing through the second said jaw and the sides of the first said jaw and pivoting the second said jaw, and a spring interposed between the inner ends of the jaws and normally holding their outer ends together.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY F. ROONEY.

Vitnesses:

O. F. BROWN, A. D. HARRISON. 

